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Just like Germany provoked the start of WW1, then claimed they were the victims.
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Dozens of Hezbollah members reportedly hurt by exploding pagers
Blasts affecting the Iran-backed armed group occur in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon.www.bbc.co.uk
Lebanon pager attack latest: Walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon, day after deadly pager blasts - reports
At least three people are reported to have died in the latest blasts, a day after thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon.
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Lebanon, Hezbollah and the group’s allies have all blamed Israel. But what really happened? Many analysts believe the answer might lie in how Hezbollah got the pagers in the first place — because that might hold clues to whether the devices were tampered with to facilitate the explosions. A Lebanese security source and another source told the Reuters news agency that the Mossad agency planted explosives in 5,000 pagers that Hezbollah had ordered months before the explosions. The sources said a code was simultaneously sent to 3,000 of the pagers, triggering the explosions.
While the exact mechanism used for the pager explosions is unclear at the moment, some experts speculate that the radio system that the pagers rely on was hacked, possibly through a doctored code. The batteries of the pagers could have been triggered to overheat, leading to a process called thermal runaway, which in turn caused the pager batteries to explode. Some analysts have speculated that the pagers may also have been tampered with along the supply chain and wired to explode on command. Those investigations suggest that Israel placed 1 to 3 grammes of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a powerful explosive, in each device...the pagers procured by Hezbollah were with a third party and they sat at a port for three months, awaiting clearances, before they were finally moved to the Lebanese group. Hezbollah suspects that it was during those three months that Israel managed to plant explosives in the devices. Hezbollah’s investigation so far shows that metal balls were placed around the pager batteries, allowing the explosive force to propel metal fragments outward, “significantly increasing the lethality of the blast”. He added that this was also done during the three months when the shipment was on hold.
The trademark of Taiwan pager manufacturer Gold Apollo has been identified on the remains of the exploded pagers, which appear to belong to the company’s AR-924 model. The company released a statement denying that it had manufactured Hezbollah’s pagers and saying it was only its logo that was on the devices; Instead, the pagers had been built by a Hungarian company called BAC through a licensing deal, the Taiwan firm said.
Bismillah@Al Jazeera
While the exact mechanism used for the pager explosions is unclear at the moment, some experts speculate that the radio system that the pagers rely on was hacked, possibly through a doctored code. The batteries of the pagers could have been triggered to overheat, leading to a process called thermal runaway, which in turn caused the pager batteries to explode. Some analysts have speculated that the pagers may also have been tampered with along the supply chain and wired to explode on command. Those investigations suggest that Israel placed 1 to 3 grammes of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a powerful explosive, in each device...the pagers procured by Hezbollah were with a third party and they sat at a port for three months, awaiting clearances, before they were finally moved to the Lebanese group. Hezbollah suspects that it was during those three months that Israel managed to plant explosives in the devices. Hezbollah’s investigation so far shows that metal balls were placed around the pager batteries, allowing the explosive force to propel metal fragments outward, “significantly increasing the lethality of the blast”. He added that this was also done during the three months when the shipment was on hold.
The trademark of Taiwan pager manufacturer Gold Apollo has been identified on the remains of the exploded pagers, which appear to belong to the company’s AR-924 model. The company released a statement denying that it had manufactured Hezbollah’s pagers and saying it was only its logo that was on the devices; Instead, the pagers had been built by a Hungarian company called BAC through a licensing deal, the Taiwan firm said.
Bismillah@Al Jazeera
The explosions of wireless communication devices across Lebanon this week in a series of attacks widely believed to have been carried out by Israel likely constitute a breach of the laws of war, experts say. “You’re not supposed to booby-trap objects that civilians are likely to pick up and use, or objects generally associated with normal civilian use,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, a lawyer and director of the US-based rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). “And this is exactly why we’ve seen the devastation that we’re seeing in Lebanon,” she told Al Jazeera. “Anybody could pick up one of these pagers. We also have no idea who had the pagers, or whether or not they’re legitimate military targets.”
Huwaida Arraf, a US-based human rights lawyer, echoed Whitson’s remarks, saying that the explosions violated the prohibition on indiscriminate attacks as well as a ban on booby-trapping devices associated with civilian use. That latter curb is laid out in the 1996 Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps, and Other Devices – a UN treaty. “There are Israel apologists arguing that this was not an indiscriminate attack but rather very targeted. As we are learning, these bombs went off in supermarkets and other public spaces. If the target was Lebanese civilians at large, then sure. But this is no less unlawful and, in fact, meets the textbook definition of state terrorism.
While Israel has not confirmed its involvement in the attacks this week, it typically argues that its military operations are justified as part of a fight against “terrorism”. Israel’s supporters have celebrated the explosions in Lebanon, describing them as “precise”, but the blasts went off around civilians – at funerals and in residential buildings, grocery stores, and barber shops, among other places.
International humanitarian law (IHL) – a set of rules spelled out in global treaties meant to protect non-combatants during armed conflict – prohibits attacks that “are not directed at a specific military objective”.
Huwaida Arraf, a US-based human rights lawyer, echoed Whitson’s remarks, saying that the explosions violated the prohibition on indiscriminate attacks as well as a ban on booby-trapping devices associated with civilian use. That latter curb is laid out in the 1996 Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps, and Other Devices – a UN treaty. “There are Israel apologists arguing that this was not an indiscriminate attack but rather very targeted. As we are learning, these bombs went off in supermarkets and other public spaces. If the target was Lebanese civilians at large, then sure. But this is no less unlawful and, in fact, meets the textbook definition of state terrorism.
While Israel has not confirmed its involvement in the attacks this week, it typically argues that its military operations are justified as part of a fight against “terrorism”. Israel’s supporters have celebrated the explosions in Lebanon, describing them as “precise”, but the blasts went off around civilians – at funerals and in residential buildings, grocery stores, and barber shops, among other places.
International humanitarian law (IHL) – a set of rules spelled out in global treaties meant to protect non-combatants during armed conflict – prohibits attacks that “are not directed at a specific military objective”.
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Does that law also apply, say, to one country that invades another, kills and rapes 1200 unarmed civilians at a festival and takes 250 hostages?
Since the status of Palestine was only recognised as a sovereign state in June this year by 146 of the 193 member states* of the United Nations, your question is moot. It had only been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November 2012.
*Israel does not.
Israel's genocide of Palestinians continues as planned.
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Ah, so the October attack against unarmed civilians was perfectly legal and above board then. Good to see that they play by the rules. How unfair for the state of Israel to retaliate, I can understand why there’s all this I’ll feeling against them now. They should have just ignored it, yes?
According to agreed standards of International Law by the UN, of which Israel is a member - yes.
Not according to Chapter VII, article 51 of the UN charter'
Which states... The use of force in self-defence must be proportional.
And...does not permit the use of armed force against non-state actors on another state's territory without its consent.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia cited Article 51 in a speech to justify the 2022 invasion of Ukraine so that puts Netanyahu in very suspect company.
This has been previously stated so all mot is managing to do is rake over the coals as usual. If y'all got anything new, feel free.
You know what they say about the best form of defence is, don't you?
The use of force has been proportional, civilian deaths are inevitable when the terrorist force in question embeds itself in the civilian population so despite Israels best efforts at minimising civilian casualties, it happens, as in any war,
We've previously established that the civilian death rate in Gaza is lower than both the Iraq war and the Kosovo war, which should be applauded.
If you'd bothered to read half of this thread you'd know what a pile of piffle that is.
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